New Issue of Sociology of Health & Illness is Now Available
July 7, 2009
Sociology of Health & Illness (Volume 31, Issue 3, April 2009) is now available by subscription only.
Articles Include:
- “Towards a history of choice in UK health policy” by Ian Greener, 309-324.
- “Who’s minding the data? Data Monitoring Committees in clinical cancer trials” by Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio, 325-342.
- “‘It’s them faulty genes again’: women, men and the gendered nature of genetic responsibility in prenatal blood screening” by Kate Reed, 343-359.
- “‘Doing’ chronic illness? Complementary medicine use among people living with HIV/AIDS in Australia” by Rachel D. Thorpe, 375-389.
- “Physical and digital proximity: emerging ways of health care in face-to-face and telemonitoring of heart-failure patients” by Nelly Oudshoorn, 390-405.
- “The changing nature of prescribing: pharmacists as prescribers and challenges to medical dominance” by Marjorie C. Weiss and Jane Sutton, 406-421,
- “Economic inequality and population health: looking beyond aggregate indicators” by Petri Böckerman, Edvard Johansson, Satu Helakorpi, and Antti Uutela, 422-440.
- “Health-related stigma” by Graham Scambler, 441-455.
Book Reviews Include:
- “Pink Ribbons, Inc. Breast Cancer and the Politics if Philanthropy – by King, S., Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge. Science and Citizenship in the Cultural Context of the ‘New’ Genetics – by Gibbon, S., Building Genetic Medicine. Breast Cancer Technology and the Comparative Politics of Health Care – by Parthasarathy, S. and Breast Cancer and the Post-Surgical Body. Recovering the Self – by Crompvoets, S.” by Laura Potts, 456-458.
- “Cancer Activism. Gender, Media, and Public Policy – by Kedrowski, K.M. and Sarow, M.S.” by François Briatte, 458-459.
- “Biobanks: governance in a comparative perspective – Edited by Gottweiss, H. and Petersen, A.” by Helen Busby, 460-461.
- “Risk and the Public Acceptance of New Technologies – Edited by Flynn, R. and Bellaby, P” by Andy Alaszewski, 461-462.
